Image Size or Aspect Ratio? Or??

I am working on a Premiere CS5 movie project that requires some stills to be embedded within the video clips. The Premiere sequence is set to 1920x1080 (1.0) using high def footage.
The stills are all very large files, so I want to reduce them to something closer to the video size. Using Image Size I set the width to 1920 then the height comes out greater than 1080 but that should be no problem. When I play the movie in Premiere I can see that there is a noticeable difference in the size of the video image compared to the still image. The still has black bars on each side. I can zoom each still up to fill in the full frame, but that is not desirable.
So I tried an experiment in Photoshop CS5. Went to Open New and chose the film and video preset. Then I drew a nice big circle in the middle of the canvas with two smaller circles in opposing corners. Saved that as PSD with 1920x1080 square pixels. When I added that image to the video sequence it fit right in with the video images and there was no noticable size variation when the movie went from video to still to video. The circles I drew remained round and appeared just as desired, so I presume I got the aspect ratio right.
Then I opened another film and video preset and on this one I used the move tool to drag one of my still images over to the new canvas, saved with the correct attributes and added it to my sequence and it played perfect.
Now for my question. Is there a simpler process than what I described here to getting an image into the proper size and ratio to match my video settings? Dragging each image onto a new canvas with video presets is a bit time consuming and I'm sure there must be a simple way to accomplish what I need. I don't see a way to just apply the film and video preset attributes to an image that is already open in Photoshop.
Any ideas??
Thanks

Yeah, I'm having trouble putting the problem into words. You almost have to see it happening. If I was smarter about this stuff it would be easier to explain.
When I play the video clips in Premiere they look correct in the preview monitor. When the movie gets to the stills that are inserted between video clips there is a noticable difference in how the image "fits" into the preview monitor. It appears that the still image is not as wide as the video. The project and videos are set to 1920x1080 (1.0) so it seems to me that if I set the image size of a still to 1920 then the still should fill the same width as the video did.
Photoshop won't allow me the directly change the image size to exactly 1920x1080. When I set the width to 1920 the height automaticlly goes to 1235. And that image results in what I described above.
But if I create a new canvas using film and video presets I can set it to 1920x1080. Then if I use the move tool to drag my still image onto that new canvas I can save it with the exact same size as my videos. And when I do that it plays perfect in the video sequence as you can't see any difference in the appearance of the size of the still image compared to the video when they play as a movie.
So, what other method do I have available to get that same film and video present into a still image? Is it possible that it is simply a problem with the slight difference in the image size I get when using Image Resize? I haven't researched a way to unlink the H x W settings in that panel. If that's possible then perhaps that will give me an easier way to do this.
Did that make it any clearer??
Thanks

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